#SW15 DREAM SETLIST // Mayhem

Ready for another DREAM SETLIST? This time we take on Norway’s frostbitten, Helvete-dwelling black metal OGs, MAYHEM. Did your bestial invocation of kvlt evil make the cut?

Mayhem will walk onto the stage and Necrobutcher will look angry for no reason. then Atilla Csihar will emerge out of a thick plume of smoke wearing a public enemy clock and a coat made entirely out of the foreskin of bears. But evil bears. Like super satanic ones. They will play two songs off last year’s Esoteric Warfare album, which will be good, but you won’t know what songs they actually are. You’ll headbang politely and toss up your horns at the right time like you know them, like you’re not kind of a poser, but then ​you’ll look around you to make sure you’re not standing near any real fans who are posed in a crouch, grabbing at invisible oranges and pig squealing all of the words (or what they think the words might possibly be). – Tom “Sal Bagoth” Hersey

Fall of Seraphs – We’ll get some Maniac-era joints that people are going to have a better chance of knowing. Atilla will be off on his own kick so you’ll think to yourself, ‘yo, i know this song but what the hell is this song? I like it’. Then you’ll start thinking about how dangerous a band really could be when they’re playing a big corporate festival. You’ll realise this whole thing, and indeed your whole life, is a sham. Existential crisis ensues, you toss horns with less vigor. – Tom “Duke Hersnachkt” Hersey

Deconsecrate – You snap out of it and you get stoked because there’s been nothing from Deathcrush. You know that shit is coming. You just know it. – Tom “Pseudonymous” Hersey

Cursed in Eternity – Some songs are about evil, some songs sound evil but some songs just are evil. Cursed is what witches are jamming when they’re bubbling, toiling and troubling. This is what fucking over populations with the black death sounds like. There’s something unwholesome about this song, like I’m watching a 10 year old kid fly a kite at midnight. By gum, I love it. – Tom “Baldheim” Valcanis

Deathcrush – Let’s face it, you’re probably here because you heard your friends talk about how badass mayhem were nearly 30 years ago. The conversation around this band is still about their notoriety because no black metal band could ever be as good as Darkthrone. Mayhem have turned that conversation into a career. Good for them. Nevertheless, the stuff that Mayhem were doing in their infancy was pretty fucking cool, and it’s going to be very cool to hear this. – Tom “Moribund” Hersey

Pure Fucking Armageddon – Same shit as deathcrush, but don’t sweat it. Atilla will do some weird cool shit and there’ll be a sick smoke machine and it will sound evil. – Tom “Bludgeondoctor” Hersey

Don’t Call Me Baby – Not the Madison Avenue club banger but the Frankenbok cover. Truth be told, I’m not sure they can pull it off without getting whitest-boy wasted. – Tom “I.C.U Cyclone” Valcanis

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